Onchidium

Onchidium is a genus of air-breathing sea slugs, shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae.

Species

Some authors recognize only four species in the genus. The World Register of Marine Species lists six species as accepted.

• Onchidium melakense <small>Dayrat & Goulding, 2019</small>
• Onchidium multiradiatum <small>C. Semper, 1882</small>
• Onchidium nebulosum <small>C. Semper, 1880</small>
• Onchidium reevesii <small>(J. E. Gray, 1850)</small>
• Onchidium stuxbergi <small>(Westerlund, 1883)</small>
• Onchidium typhae <small>Buchannan, 1800</small>

Onchidium multinotatum, originally described within the genus in 1883, is regarded as a nomen dubium.

References

• Starobogatov, Y. I. (1970). Fauna Molliuskov i Zoogeograficheskoe Raionirovanie Kontinental'nykh Vodoemov Zemnogo Shara [The Molluscan Fauna and Zoogeographical Zoning of the Continental Water Bodies of the World]. Nauka. Leningrad. 372 p., 12 tables
• Labbé A. (1935). Sur une forme nouvelle de Silicoderme, Elophilus ajuthiae nov. gen. nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 60: 312-317

External links

• Buchannan, F. (1800). An account of the Onchidium, a new genus of the class of vermes, found in Bengal. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 5: 132–134, pl. 5.
• Dayrat B., Goulding T.C., Apte D., Bhave V., Comendador J., Quang N.X., Tan S.K. & Tan S.H. (2016). Integrative taxonomy of the genus Onchidium Buchannan, 1800 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Onchidiidae). ZooKeys. 636: 1-40